Lora Assi
Lora Assi is a fourth-year student at the University of Pennsylvania from Ramallah, Palestine. She is completing a neuroscience major and minors in chemistry and healthcare management. Lora has been conducting neuroscience research at the Platt Labs of the Perelman School of Medicine for the past year and a half. Specifically, she has been studying free-ranging rhesus macaques that reside on an island called Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, due to their highly sociable nature.
Outside of classes and research, Lora is also an undergraduate coordinator and volunteer at the United Community Clinic, a spoken word poet with the Excelano Project at Penn, and has served as President of the Penn Arab Student Society and a teaching assistant at Educational Pipeline at the Netter Center. After graduation, she hopes to continue research in neuroscience and potentially continue her studies after that.